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Renard Press lands Andrew Crowther's 'witty' short-story collection
Renard Press has landed Andrew Crowther’s first "light-hearted" and "witty" short-story collection, Stupid Stories for Tough Times.
Publisher Will Dady acquired world English rights directly from the author. The collection will be published under the Hay Press imprint in July.
Pitched as a "tonic for our times", Stupid Stories for Tough Times includes a story about a woodland spirit who causes chaos in suburbia, one about a troll trying to find a friend and another about an uncle who causes suspicion in the family.
Dady commented: "I’m thrilled to have secured the rights to Andrew Crowther’s first short-story collection, Stupid Stories for Tough Times. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Andrew before, on our collected works of the great humourist W S Gilbert, which he collates and edits, and so it feels like a natural progression to work with him on a collection of his own work, which very much in the same school of humour. Light-hearted and shot through with observational wit, touching on topics as far removed as politics and the natural world, this really is the perfect tonic for our times – a good old laugh for an age that has forgotten how to take itself with a pinch of salt."
